Cabinet in a secret internal memo last June 18 acknowledged it could not meet its housing target despite repeated promises to the public. The memo is dated two months after cabinet promised its housing plan was “unlocking the door to the middle class for millions.” READ MORE
A federally-sponsored advocacy group yesterday admitted to contacting a convention hall over its rental of space to a group critical of the Liberal Party. The taxpayer-subsidized Canadian Anti-Hate Network acknowledged making the call but denied acting at the government’s direction: "We are a completely independent organization." READ MORE
Anti-Israel street protestors should not be called Nazis per se, a national press ombudsman has ruled. Likening street demonstrators to members of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party was “overly broad,” said the National News Media Council: "Thinkers have argued the term ‘Nazi’ should only be reserved for those responsible for the Holocaust." READ MORE
Automakers yesterday petitioned British Columbia to repeal its electric vehicle mandate, first in the nation. The B.C. program set the pattern for a federal mandate that proposes to outlaw the new sale of gas or diesel powered cars by 2035: 'Sales targets will not be achieved.' READ MORE
Federal inspectors yesterday disclosed a steep penalty for breach of migrant labour regulations. An Alberta gas station operator was fined $164,000 and banned from the Temporary Foreign Worker Program for five years: 'The department previously conducted few on-site inspections.' READ MORE
Military reserves are now 25 percent short of their targeted minimum strength, records show. The Department of National Defence in an in-house report said reserves were so poorly managed they did not spend more than a billion approved by Parliament to get them up to strength: 'Lack of coherence has repercussions.' READ MORE
Prime Minister Mark Carney yesterday said he will recuse himself from any dealings with Brookfield Asset Management, the New York-based conglomerate that paid him the equivalent of $9.8 million in stock options last December 31. The Opposition said Carney’s conflict was so glaring he should immediately dump all stock holdings: "Let’s say there’s a decision that will have a major impact on Brookfield." READ MORE
There had been discrimination against Catholics and Jews and Blacks and Indigenous and Ukrainians and the Irish and it was wrong. Yet if you were homosexual you could be fired, you could be denied an apartment, you could be prohibited from marrying. In those days, in the 1970s and 80s, the prevailing sense among the public – and even those who were homosexual – was not to discuss it. We’d all been brought up with this being a very deep social taboo. The word was so difficult to say. Many people choked on it. Even media preferred not to publish any stories about homosexuals. They didn’t like to use the word. And politicians never wanted to expend any political capital legislating equality for an unpopular minority.
